A Fun Evening of Poker
I haven't played a terribly large amount of poker in the past week due to being busy with a bunch of school stuff. I did manage to play the home game last week and some online cash games today and did pretty well overall.
In the home game I didn't play too many interesting hands. We had 7 players and I ended up winning the whole shebang. There was nothing special that happened -- my 2p2 robot buddy did his usual thing and ran over most of the players while I hung back a little bit and picked my spots to get chips (picking up AA 4 times during the tourney didn't hurt either). We ended up getting heads up and I was outchipped about 55K to 85K with the blinds at 800/1600 and I ended up winning the thing in 5 hands. Here's how that happened:
Hand 1) I fold the SB with 93o
Hand 2) He raises to 4200, I make it 10,000 with AA, he moves in, I call and beat his 24o.
Hand 3) I raise to 4800 with QdTd, he folds.
Hand 4) He folds the SB
Hand 5) I make it 4800 with As8s, he moves in for about 35,000. I call after about 30 seconds and beat his Kh7h.
This guy really needs to learn to take the pedal off the metal every once in a while.
I also played about 450 hands of $1/$2 online this evening. It went pretty well and I finished up ahead a little over $500. There were some uber-donkeys on the tables tonight and it was a lot of fun. I had only $150 on pokerroom to start the evening, which I lost by running JJ into AA in a 3-handed $1/$2 game. I actually probably could have gotten away with about 1/2 my chips but I was stupid and lazy about it and didn't really think it through.
I then remembered that I had gotten $180 in rakeback on pokespoker last month so I tranferred this amount from my cashier account to my poker account and I was off to play again. Since I only had $180 I put $40 on a full table to do the min buyin challenge and $140 on a shorthanded table.
First of all let me explain what the min buyin challenge is. It's actually kinda simple; you put 20BBs on the table in some game then move up to the next level as soon as you have 20BBs for the next level on your current table. For example, I was going to put $40 on a $1/$2 table and move whatever money I gathered to a $2/$4 table as soon as I had $80 or more on the table. Then I would move to $3/$6 as soon as I had $120 on the table, etc. I've done this before by starting at smaller levels and running it up to $2/$4 before either quitting or busting. It's actally kind of fun and I would recommend it for anyone looking for a little change of pace.
Anyway, at a certain point I decided to just stay at the $1/$2 table because the game was pretty good. I built my stack from $40 to about $320 on this table by beating AA with 89s on an 4699J board and by beating AJ with 46 on a A35K2 board.
I also played a fairly interesting hand while at the table. Let's take a look at that.
PokerRoom No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed)
Hero ($311.80)
UTG ($105.20)
UTG+1 ($162.60)
MP1 ($106.80)
MP2 ($90.50)
MP3 ($187.40)
CO ($190.00)
Button ($270.10)
SB ($31.00)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Td, Th.
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $7, 4 folds, Button calls $7, SB calls $6, Hero calls $5.
Sometimes I call here and sometimes I reraise. I opted to call here because I didn't really want to play a gigantic pot out of position with a marginal hand, where if my reraise gets called preflop I'll have to commit a ton of chips after the flop to find out if my hand is any good. Besides, TT is a fine hand for multiway action that can win a medium pot as an overpair or a big pot with a set. So I called...
Flop: ($28) 5h, 5d, 8h (4 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $24, UTG+1 folds, Button calls $24, SB folds.
Here I think betting is obvious as a free card would pretty much be a disaster. I'm fine with this play.
Turn: ($76) Ac (2 players)
Hero bets $45, Button calls $45.
This is the part I'm unsure of. This guy was fairly decent and his range is probably {88-QQ, AhXh, A5s, any other heart draw he might have}. I think he'll fold the parts of his range that aren't at least aces up to my turn bet. Let's figure out whether I should bet here after we look at the rest of this hand.
River: ($166) 5s (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $194.1 (All-In), Hero folds.
Here I can't really beat anything that he's betting for value. Pretty much every hand he would have called with on the turn (except 6h7h) has me beat so I fold.
Final Pot: $360.10
Results below:
Button doesn't show.
Outcome: Button wins $360.10.
Ok, so let's figure out whether I should bet on the turn (I think it was the right thing to do). This guy seemed like he was pretty tight and a straight shooter. Let's assume that his calling range on the flop is {55-QQ, AhXh, 6h7h, 9hJh-9hKh, A5s} and that he will fold 66-77, 99-QQ and all flush draws that aren't AhXh or 7h6h on the turn if I bet. We also need to assume some things about the river action so let's just assume that I will break even there.
These assumptions have him folding 65% of the time to my turn bet. If I break even on the river, this bet will net me $76 62.5% of the time and lose me $45 37.5% of the time for a profit of (76)(.625)-(45)(.375) = 47.50-16.88 = $30.62. In fact he'd only need to fold only 37% of time for this bet to show an immediate profit. That's pretty sick; I thought it was closer to being a check on the turn. If he shows up with fewer flush draws (i.e., he is tighter preflop) or won't fold his larger pairs and flush draws on the turn (i.e., he is a calling station) then this might not be an obvious bet but as it looks now I think it was right to bet. Cool, now let's move on.
As I was playing this game, I was also playing in a shorthanded game on Pokerroom also. I sat down in this game with $140, dropping it to as low as about $22, then building this back up to $525!! Ok, let's look at some of these hands. This hand got me busted down to 20-something dollars had me remembering why I hate poker so much.
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
5 players
Stack sizes:
UTG: $141.00
Hero: $164.10
Button: $19.75
SB: $58.40
BB: $274.40
Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with Ad Qd
UTG calls, Hero raises to $10, 3 folds, UTG calls.
Flop: Qh 3h Jc ($23, 2 players)
UTG bets $10, Hero raises to $25, UTG raises all-in $121, Hero calls.
Turn: 2d ($265, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $265)
River: 4c ($265, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $265)
Results:
Final pot: $265
UTG shows 5D AH
Hero shows AD QD
I can only guess as to why this guy thought 3 betting on the QJ3 flop with A5 was a good idea. This guy proceeded to stack off for the rest of my chips to another decent player by limping UTG with KK (this was 5-handed by the way) and losing to the decent player's Q6 (in the big blind) on a QQx flop. He was actually complaining about the "bad beats" and "rigged software" and such. Fortunately for everyone he reloaded and ended up giving me more than he took. Let's look at some of those hands.
In this one, he gets pretty deeply involved with 95 against my AA when he flops a 5.
UTG ($52.75)
MP ($62.40)
Button ($271.40)
SB (Complaining Donkey) ($196.00)
Hero ($81.10)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Ac, As.
3 folds, SB (Complaining Donkey) completes, Hero raises to $6, SB (Complaining Donkey) calls $4.
Flop: ($12) 3d, Ts, 5d (2 players)
Complaining Donkey checks, Hero bets $8, Complaining Donkey calls $8.
Turn: ($28) Qs (2 players)
Complaining Donkey checks, Hero bets $14, Complaining Donkey calls $14.
River: ($56) Ad (2 players)
Complaining Donkey bets $25, Hero calls $25.
Final Pot: $106
Results below:
Complaining Donkey has 5s 9s (one pair, fives).
Hero has Ac As (three of a kind, aces).
Outcome: Hero wins $106.
Then I waited around for a pretty long time trying to pick off this guy's entire stack. This happened on the following hand. Ok, the hand history converter I use is not working right now. Let me just remember it.
4-handed, I have $202, donkey has $326. I make it $8 UTG with TT, all fold to donkey's BB, he calls. Flop comes 26J rainbow. Donkey check/calls $10. Turn comes a magnificent offsuit T giving me the set. Donkey check/calls $25. At this point I'm pretty sure he has top pair. The river comes another J, he checks, I bet $100, he raises the $60 more that I have and I call and beat his AJ.
Then a few hands later he was shortstacked and I finished him off on the following hand (he was clearly on uber-tilt so I wanted to let him hang himself).
4-handed, I have $410, Donkey has $115. I make it $10 UTG with JJ, all fold to donkey's BB, he makes it $27, I call. Flop comes 398 rainbow, he jams, I call and beat his 28o.
What a fun evening of poker.
Anyway, this has gotten long enough and I'm getting tired now. So it's bed time for me. I'm going to be going to San Jose on "business" next week which might afford me some time to play poker during some of the downtime that I'll have (which I expect to be extensive). I'll post anything notable or interesting that happens.
In the home game I didn't play too many interesting hands. We had 7 players and I ended up winning the whole shebang. There was nothing special that happened -- my 2p2 robot buddy did his usual thing and ran over most of the players while I hung back a little bit and picked my spots to get chips (picking up AA 4 times during the tourney didn't hurt either). We ended up getting heads up and I was outchipped about 55K to 85K with the blinds at 800/1600 and I ended up winning the thing in 5 hands. Here's how that happened:
Hand 1) I fold the SB with 93o
Hand 2) He raises to 4200, I make it 10,000 with AA, he moves in, I call and beat his 24o.
Hand 3) I raise to 4800 with QdTd, he folds.
Hand 4) He folds the SB
Hand 5) I make it 4800 with As8s, he moves in for about 35,000. I call after about 30 seconds and beat his Kh7h.
This guy really needs to learn to take the pedal off the metal every once in a while.
I also played about 450 hands of $1/$2 online this evening. It went pretty well and I finished up ahead a little over $500. There were some uber-donkeys on the tables tonight and it was a lot of fun. I had only $150 on pokerroom to start the evening, which I lost by running JJ into AA in a 3-handed $1/$2 game. I actually probably could have gotten away with about 1/2 my chips but I was stupid and lazy about it and didn't really think it through.
I then remembered that I had gotten $180 in rakeback on pokespoker last month so I tranferred this amount from my cashier account to my poker account and I was off to play again. Since I only had $180 I put $40 on a full table to do the min buyin challenge and $140 on a shorthanded table.
First of all let me explain what the min buyin challenge is. It's actually kinda simple; you put 20BBs on the table in some game then move up to the next level as soon as you have 20BBs for the next level on your current table. For example, I was going to put $40 on a $1/$2 table and move whatever money I gathered to a $2/$4 table as soon as I had $80 or more on the table. Then I would move to $3/$6 as soon as I had $120 on the table, etc. I've done this before by starting at smaller levels and running it up to $2/$4 before either quitting or busting. It's actally kind of fun and I would recommend it for anyone looking for a little change of pace.
Anyway, at a certain point I decided to just stay at the $1/$2 table because the game was pretty good. I built my stack from $40 to about $320 on this table by beating AA with 89s on an 4699J board and by beating AJ with 46 on a A35K2 board.
I also played a fairly interesting hand while at the table. Let's take a look at that.
PokerRoom No-Limit Hold'em, $2 BB (9 handed)
Hero ($311.80)
UTG ($105.20)
UTG+1 ($162.60)
MP1 ($106.80)
MP2 ($90.50)
MP3 ($187.40)
CO ($190.00)
Button ($270.10)
SB ($31.00)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Td, Th.
1 fold, UTG+1 raises to $7, 4 folds, Button calls $7, SB calls $6, Hero calls $5.
Sometimes I call here and sometimes I reraise. I opted to call here because I didn't really want to play a gigantic pot out of position with a marginal hand, where if my reraise gets called preflop I'll have to commit a ton of chips after the flop to find out if my hand is any good. Besides, TT is a fine hand for multiway action that can win a medium pot as an overpair or a big pot with a set. So I called...
Flop: ($28) 5h, 5d, 8h (4 players)
SB checks, Hero bets $24, UTG+1 folds, Button calls $24, SB folds.
Here I think betting is obvious as a free card would pretty much be a disaster. I'm fine with this play.
Turn: ($76) Ac (2 players)
Hero bets $45, Button calls $45.
This is the part I'm unsure of. This guy was fairly decent and his range is probably {88-QQ, AhXh, A5s, any other heart draw he might have}. I think he'll fold the parts of his range that aren't at least aces up to my turn bet. Let's figure out whether I should bet here after we look at the rest of this hand.
River: ($166) 5s (2 players)
Hero checks, Button bets $194.1 (All-In), Hero folds.
Here I can't really beat anything that he's betting for value. Pretty much every hand he would have called with on the turn (except 6h7h) has me beat so I fold.
Final Pot: $360.10
Results below:
Button doesn't show.
Outcome: Button wins $360.10.
Ok, so let's figure out whether I should bet on the turn (I think it was the right thing to do). This guy seemed like he was pretty tight and a straight shooter. Let's assume that his calling range on the flop is {55-QQ, AhXh, 6h7h, 9hJh-9hKh, A5s} and that he will fold 66-77, 99-QQ and all flush draws that aren't AhXh or 7h6h on the turn if I bet. We also need to assume some things about the river action so let's just assume that I will break even there.
These assumptions have him folding 65% of the time to my turn bet. If I break even on the river, this bet will net me $76 62.5% of the time and lose me $45 37.5% of the time for a profit of (76)(.625)-(45)(.375) = 47.50-16.88 = $30.62. In fact he'd only need to fold only 37% of time for this bet to show an immediate profit. That's pretty sick; I thought it was closer to being a check on the turn. If he shows up with fewer flush draws (i.e., he is tighter preflop) or won't fold his larger pairs and flush draws on the turn (i.e., he is a calling station) then this might not be an obvious bet but as it looks now I think it was right to bet. Cool, now let's move on.
As I was playing this game, I was also playing in a shorthanded game on Pokerroom also. I sat down in this game with $140, dropping it to as low as about $22, then building this back up to $525!! Ok, let's look at some of these hands. This hand got me busted down to 20-something dollars had me remembering why I hate poker so much.
No Limit Holdem Ring game
Blinds: $1/$2
5 players
Stack sizes:
UTG: $141.00
Hero: $164.10
Button: $19.75
SB: $58.40
BB: $274.40
Pre-flop: (5 players) Hero is CO with Ad Qd
UTG calls, Hero raises to $10, 3 folds, UTG calls.
Flop: Qh 3h Jc ($23, 2 players)
UTG bets $10, Hero raises to $25, UTG raises all-in $121, Hero calls.
Turn: 2d ($265, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $265)
River: 4c ($265, 1 player + 1 all-in - Main pot: $265)
Results:
Final pot: $265
UTG shows 5D AH
Hero shows AD QD
I can only guess as to why this guy thought 3 betting on the QJ3 flop with A5 was a good idea. This guy proceeded to stack off for the rest of my chips to another decent player by limping UTG with KK (this was 5-handed by the way) and losing to the decent player's Q6 (in the big blind) on a QQx flop. He was actually complaining about the "bad beats" and "rigged software" and such. Fortunately for everyone he reloaded and ended up giving me more than he took. Let's look at some of those hands.
In this one, he gets pretty deeply involved with 95 against my AA when he flops a 5.
UTG ($52.75)
MP ($62.40)
Button ($271.40)
SB (Complaining Donkey) ($196.00)
Hero ($81.10)
Preflop: Hero is BB with Ac, As.
3 folds, SB (Complaining Donkey) completes, Hero raises to $6, SB (Complaining Donkey) calls $4.
Flop: ($12) 3d, Ts, 5d (2 players)
Complaining Donkey checks, Hero bets $8, Complaining Donkey calls $8.
Turn: ($28) Qs (2 players)
Complaining Donkey checks, Hero bets $14, Complaining Donkey calls $14.
River: ($56) Ad (2 players)
Complaining Donkey bets $25, Hero calls $25.
Final Pot: $106
Results below:
Complaining Donkey has 5s 9s (one pair, fives).
Hero has Ac As (three of a kind, aces).
Outcome: Hero wins $106.
Then I waited around for a pretty long time trying to pick off this guy's entire stack. This happened on the following hand. Ok, the hand history converter I use is not working right now. Let me just remember it.
4-handed, I have $202, donkey has $326. I make it $8 UTG with TT, all fold to donkey's BB, he calls. Flop comes 26J rainbow. Donkey check/calls $10. Turn comes a magnificent offsuit T giving me the set. Donkey check/calls $25. At this point I'm pretty sure he has top pair. The river comes another J, he checks, I bet $100, he raises the $60 more that I have and I call and beat his AJ.
Then a few hands later he was shortstacked and I finished him off on the following hand (he was clearly on uber-tilt so I wanted to let him hang himself).
4-handed, I have $410, Donkey has $115. I make it $10 UTG with JJ, all fold to donkey's BB, he makes it $27, I call. Flop comes 398 rainbow, he jams, I call and beat his 28o.
What a fun evening of poker.
Anyway, this has gotten long enough and I'm getting tired now. So it's bed time for me. I'm going to be going to San Jose on "business" next week which might afford me some time to play poker during some of the downtime that I'll have (which I expect to be extensive). I'll post anything notable or interesting that happens.
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